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The weary Swedish cop has his hands full: his dad is slipping further into dementia, he has mixed feelings about his daughter's Syrian beau, and he's working the slaying of an elderly couple at their isolated home. To make matters worse, the dying woman's last utterance has been leaked to the press as "foreign" (though she may well have said "farm"), leading to vigilante reprisals against migrant workers.

While on leave, Wallander battles depression in the aftermath of having killed a man. At the same time, he looks into a friend's father's death, a request he initially rebuffed but, after his friend's apparent suicide, feels compelled to complete.

Wallander investigates a possible serial killer, whose brutal murders of older men amount to "public executions," while facing the barren landscape that's become his life. As his faltering father tells him, "you don't look at the world, you just drive straight through it." The point's further driven home during an unexpected reunion with his ex-wife and the case itself; even the victims, who bullied women, weren't as alone as he is.

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Weary Swedish cop Kurt Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) catches few breaks in Season 2 of the gripping mystery series adapted from Swedish crime author Henning Mankell's "Inspector Wallander" books. He investigates a double homicide at an isolated house; looks into the circumstances surrounding a friend's father's death; and hunts a possible serial killer who's targeting older men. At the same time, he battles through a major depression and faces up to the barren landscape that's become his life. As his faltering father (David Warner) tells him, "you don't look at the world, you just drive straight through it."

Episodes

The weary Swedish cop has his hands full: his dad is slipping further into dementia, he has mixed feelings about his daughter's Syrian beau, and he's working the slaying of an elderly couple at their isolated home. To make matters worse, the dying woman's last utterance has been leaked to the press as "foreign" (though she may well have said "farm"), leading to vigilante reprisals against migrant workers.

While on leave, Wallander battles depression in the aftermath of having killed a man. At the same time, he looks into a friend's father's death, a request he initially rebuffed but, after his friend's apparent suicide, feels compelled to complete.

Wallander investigates a possible serial killer, whose brutal murders of older men amount to "public executions," while facing the barren landscape that's become his life. As his faltering father tells him, "you don't look at the world, you just drive straight through it." The point's further driven home during an unexpected reunion with his ex-wife and the case itself; even the victims, who bullied women, weren't as alone as he is.

Although the mysteries to be solved in this series are satisfyingly complex, the greatest pleasure in watching them comes from the breathtaking beauty of the Swedish countryside and the aching solitude of Branagh's Wallander.